The Tender Contributions Salon grew out of a recurring feeling in my work, a sense that many people wanted more space to talk together, not just to read, but to sit with what’s coming up in their own lives and in the wider world. My writing often moves between the personal and the collective, and the salon offers a place to explore those threads together, in real time, with others who are also navigating change, uncertainty, and complexity. Hosted bi-monthly, the salon is a live, unrecorded conversation space for practicing thought while it’s still forming, for speaking without the pressure of having the right words or the right answers.
This is a facilitated group process and not a substitute for therapy.It is intentionally not recorded, to support presence, honesty, and a sense of safety in being imperfect, unsure, or mid-process. This is not a coaching space or a place to be fixed, but a soft, attentive space to listen, to be witnessed, and to practice holding big and difficult topics together, without rushing toward resolution. Access to the salon is offered through a subscription on Substack, with options to join monthly or annually.
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Soft Landing is a small, intimate grief tending writing circle for people who want to turn toward their grief, rather than trying to plug it, bypass it, or carry it alone, and who are longing for a space where what they feel can move, change shape, and become something they can live with.
We use writing as a practice of sense making, not performance, a way to listen to what the body and inner life are already communicating, and to alchemise what is heavy, stuck, or unsaid into language, clarity, and motion. Alongside this, we weave in simple somatic inquiry and gentle ritual elements, like water, breath, and intentional openings and closings, to help the work feel held and supported without becoming intense or theatrical.
